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Forgotten Attachment Detector from Microsoft Office Labs is going to change your life. I don’t know about the rest of you Microsoft Outlook 2010 users, but every time someone sends me an email where they’ve forgotten an attachment, my regard for their intelligence is debased by two full percentage points. To make them feel even [...]
A Domain Name System (DNS) is the database of web addresses and what IP address they correlate to. When your internet browser resolves one of these addresses, Windows stores that data in a cache to improve performance the next time you visit the said domain name. This works out to your benefit most of the [...]
Even if you put a password on your computer, that doesn’t stop someone from breaking in by using a brute force password guessing technique. Although more of a problem for Laptops than your home desktop, I’m going to show you a trick used by almost all corporations who run Windows. Essentially what were going to [...]
Windows Live Messenger (previously MSN Messenger) is a groovy way to communicate with your friends online, but the advertisements are really annoying and often inappropriate. Thankfully Microsoft routes all of the ads on messenger through one unique address, all we have to do is block it and those ads will be gone for good. Step [...]
Even though I’m neither a day trader nor a 3-D animator, I number myself among the cult of multiple monitor enthusiasts. But I also align myself among those who use both OS X and Windows 7 regularly (and occasionally Linux). The one camp that I don’t particularly feel at home in is the virtualization crowd. [...]
Some files in Windows need to be opened using a specific program. The problem is, it’s a pain to open up the program first and then Select the file. In this groovy guide we’ll look at one method for associating a file types to a specific application of our choice so the next time we [...]
This week Apple began accepting submissions for the upcoming Mac App Store, the OS X equivalent of the iOS iTunes based App Store. For Mac users this is a big deal; what Steam Powered has done for games, Apple is doing for Mac applications. This also means a big opportunity for people who never jumped [...]
No doubt if you use Word 2010 you’ve probably created a list at some point. The default bullets are usually just fine however if you want to stand out and have a unique document then using custom bullets for your lists might just add that extra pizazz your looking for to stand out. Plus, I [...]
In a blog post in August, the Windows Live Team announced that Hotmail now supports push notifications for Emails, Contacts and Calendars. That’s great news for iPhone users who want to get their email and appointment notifications as soon as they arrive in their inbox or calendar. Using Exchange ActiveSync (EAS), you can set your [...]
Guest Post – Beyond Life Beyond Life is a regular contributor in the groovyPost community forum and his knowledge of the Android platform is top-notch. This is the second in his series of Android tips and tutorials that will appear here on groovyPost. Compared to the other Android phones on the market, the Samsung Galaxy [...]
Android is a fairly young OS in the phone market, but it is maturing rapidly. Some are forecasting it will overtake the iPhone as quickly as Q2 2011. Anyway, as more devices come loaded with Android, you’ll find a huge variety in the hardware that Android runs on. So, want to know how your device’s [...]
Sending files via email is so last decade, and with all of the spam and malware delivered by email a lot of times it will accidently get deleted anyway. So, what email can’t do, Dropbox can! The only problem is, Dropbox doesn’t have a good way to let people send you files – that is [...]
Word 2010 has some groovy new features including the Mini Toolbar. By default this toolbar will show up whenever you Select a segment of text in your document. But, it also shows up when you Right-Click anywhere in the document. Tired of it automatically showing up when you Select text? No problem, let’s disable that! [...]
Today at work I needed a free online Currency Converter and after a little digging I stumbled across a few groovy techniques that I think you might find useful. This is especially true for those of you who do any kind of international travel since all 3 methods I discovered can be used from both [...]
